In Holy Sonnet 6, John Donne is talking to Death and mocking it. He says that "death shall be no more; Death thou shalt die" which is a paradox as death cannot die, and yet if you go to Heaven where there is no death, then death is gone and has died, so death shall die. This passage really boggles my mind, and yet, at the same time, I understand it. It's reassuring, in a sense, that after we die, we won't have to worry or even think about Death anymore for there will be no more Death. "And soonest our best men with thee do go, rest of their bones, and soul's delivery" is the passage I find the saddest of the sonnet in which it speaks of the best people usually dying first. I find this so true, and so sad, as it is often young, good people who fall prey to Death's friend, Sickness, such as cancer. My grandmother on my father's side passed away from lung and breast cancer when I was just four-years-old; she was far too young to die. One of my childhood friends died of cancer a couple years ago when she was just a young teenager. I had fallen out of touch with her, but she was always so nice and was too young to have been taken by Death.
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